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billh58

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8. The facts are, the SAME people
Sun Jan 22, 2017, 05:07 PM
Jan 2017

are buying more guns. You are obviously not interested in the facts, only in your NRA dogma. Please take your pro-gun stance to the other Group where you will feel more at home.

ETA:

US gun ownership is declining

The number of Americans who live in a household with at least one gun is declining.

Only 32% of Americans said they either own a gun or live with a person who does, tying with the record low set in 2010, according to the latest General Social Survey (GSS). During the late 1970s and early 1980s, about half of Americans said they lived in a household with a firearm.

Twenty-two percent of Americans said they own a firearm, down from a high of 31% who answered similarly in 1985.

The GSS noted key factors for the decline in household and personal gun ownership, including the decreasing popularity in hunting, end of the military draft, increase in single-parent homes headed by women and aging of the current gun-owning population — primarily white males. Fewer women than men own guns, the survey found.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/us-gun-ownership-declining




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